"Drawing is not the same as form, it…" — Edgar Degas
"Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form."
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83 Quotes by Edgar Degas
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So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.
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Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
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My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a…
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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
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I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there…
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You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one…
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I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.
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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something…
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I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little…
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident,…
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An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in…
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
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